Player Dossier

2023-2024

Southern Miss

JQ Gray

RB • 5'8" • 160 lbs • Hattiesburg, MS, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

JQ Gray leans balanced backfield option traits and 43.5 efficiency.

Usage / Role

14%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

11

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

9

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

21

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Southern Miss
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Troy

Player Story

JQ Gray built his college career from 2023 through 2024 as a running back from Hattiesburg, MS wearing No. 20, spending time with Southern Miss. The clearest part of JQ Gray's career was his backfield work: 112...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8237

Oak Grove HS · Hattiesburg, MS

Committed To
Southern Miss
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

JQ Gray, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss. JQ Gray leans balanced backfield option traits and 43.5 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
125
Rushing yards
112
Receiving yards
13

Quick Answers

JQ Gray quick answers

Latest team and position
Southern Miss · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
125
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 12 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss
Top game
Troy
Recruit profile
3-star · Oak Grove HS · Southern Miss
High school pipeline
Oak Grove HS · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 20 · Freshman
2024 Scrimmage yards rank
119 scrimmage yards · RB 429th (top 61%) · Sun Belt 143rd (top 54%) · National 1,327th (top 50%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonSouthern Miss1660034.9
2024 Regular SeasonSouthern Miss1111910613049.7

Related Context

JQ Gray played RB for Southern Miss. Across 2 tracked seasons, JQ Gray recorded 112 rushing yards and 13 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Southern Miss.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Southern Miss paired 119 primary output with 43.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 43.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2024 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Troy

Loss with 27 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss

Games

11

Scrimmage Yards / G

10.8

Efficiency

43.5

Usage

6.1

Consistency

37.7

Best Game by takeover score

Troy

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Kentucky: 6. SE Louisiana: 7. South Florida: 0. Jacksonville State: 19. Louisiana: 0. UL Monroe: 0. James Madison: 0. Marshall: 11. Texas State: 25. South Alabama: 24. Troy: 27

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Kentucky: 1 by 50. SE Louisiana: 1 by 58.3. Jacksonville State: 3 by 66. Marshall: 5 by 22.9. Texas State: 11 by 23.7. South Alabama: 8 by 31.3. Troy: 6 by 52.5

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins7 · Games = 1 · -4.2 vs Losses
Losses11.2 · Games = 10 · +4.2 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

11 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Troy

Best efficiency game

66 vs Jacksonville State

Result
Sat 11/30@ TroyL 20-525275.400104.5
Sat 11/23vs South AlabamaL 14-35824303
Sun 11/17@ Texas StateL 3-5811252.3002.3
Sat 11/9vs MarshallL 3-375112.2002.2
Sat 10/26@ James MadisonL 15-32
Sat 10/12@ UL MonroeL 21-38
Sat 10/5vs LouisianaL 13-23
Sat 9/21@ Jacksonville StateL 7-443196.3006.3
Sat 9/14vs South FloridaL 24-49
Sat 9/7vs SE LouisianaW 35-10177
Sat 8/31@ KentuckyL 0-31166

Player Story

JQ Gray story

JQ Gray built his college career from 2023 through 2024 as a running back from Hattiesburg, MS wearing No. 20, spending time with Southern Miss. The clearest part of JQ Gray's career was his backfield work: 112 rushing yards, 35 carries, and 13 receiving yards across 12 career games in the available record. His career also includes 13 receiving yards and 333 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives JQ Gray's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Southern Miss

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonSouthern Miss620.84.8
2024 Regular SeasonSouthern Miss11943.56.1113

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Troy

Week 14 · L 20-52 · Conference game

Loss with 27 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

27

Scrimmage Yards

62.5 takeover

27 scrimmage yards and 12.2 usage.

#2

@ Texas State

Week 12 · L 3-58 · Conference game

25

Scrimmage Yards

56.9 takeover

Loss with 25 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

25 scrimmage yards and 19 usage.

#3

vs South Alabama

Week 13 · L 14-35 · Conference game

24

Scrimmage Yards

52.2 takeover

Loss with 24 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

24 scrimmage yards and 12.7 usage.

#4

@ Jacksonville State

Week 4 · L 7-44

19

Scrimmage Yards

51.3 takeover

Loss with 19 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

19 scrimmage yards and 6.1 usage.

#5

vs Alcorn State

Week 1 · W 40-14

6

Scrimmage Yards

44.8 takeover

Win with 6 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

6 scrimmage yards and 4.8 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss

119 primary output · 43.5 efficiency · 6.1 usage

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#2

2023 Regular Season · Southern Miss

34.9

6 primary · 20.8 efficiency · 4.8 usage

Milestones

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100+ rush yards

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150+ scrimmage yards

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2+ TD games